Renowned Extremesport Athlete, Author, and Fear Coach Kristen Ulmer gives us poignantly relevant advice on how best to make peace with anger, sadness, and fear. In our thought-provoking conversation, she reveals novel strategies on how to build healthier relationships with the full spectrum of human emotions.

We talk Mindfulness, Psychedelic Medicines, Flow States, PTSD, COVID-19, and how to live healthy, happy, and energetic lives in our unprecedented challenging times.

  Show Notes Kristen Ulmer Podcast #34   We Discuss;    Kristen Ulmer - https://www.kristenulmer.com/ - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062423444/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 - https://www.powder.com/stories/classics/that-girl/   Big topic discussed throughout the podcast:   - Flow and flow states - https://www.headspace.com/articles/flow-state - https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/ - PTSD - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20355967   3:40 - The Amygdala -  https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/amygdala.htm#:~:text=The%20amygdala%20(Latin%2C%20corpus%20amygdaloideum,part%20of%20the%20limbic%20system.   4:36 - OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml#:~:text=Overview,to%20repeat%20over%20and%20over.   6:13 - Flow for Writers Workshop and Steven Kotler - https://www.stevenkotler.com/ - https://www.flowresearchcollective.com/flow-for-writers   9:30 - Eckhart Tolle and the "monkey mind" - https://eckharttolle.com/ - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-empowerment-diary/201709/calming-the-monkey-mind   10:20 - Traditional Zen Buddhism - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zen   10:25 - The movie Inside Out - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/   13:32 - Carl Jung - https://www.simplypsychology.org/carl-jung.html - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1204404-one-does-not-become-enlightened-by-imagining-figures-of-light   14:15 - Red Bull - https://www.redbull.com/us-en/   14:53 - Alex Honnold, "El Cap", "free-solo" and Laird Hamilton - http://www.alexhonnold.com/ - https://www.yosemite.com/what-to-do/el-capitan/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_solo_climbing - https://lairdhamilton.com/   15:22 - Zen Master Dogen Zenji - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dogen   16:00 - Alex Honnold's amygdala - https://web.musc.edu/about/news-center/2019/03/18/how-a-neuroscientist-and-professional-climber-learned-from-one-another   18:10 - The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BW54XVO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1   19:35 - PTSD statistics - https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/common/common_adults.asp - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd.shtml   25:20 - Akshay Nanavati and the Dali Llama - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshay_Nanavati - https://fearvana.com/ - https://www.dalailama.com/   27:00 - Confucius - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/ - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8688305-the-man-who-chases-two-rabbits-catches-neither   32:59 - Ayahuasca - https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/ayahuasca   34:25 - Hallucinogen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen   35:50 - War veteran PTSD suicide - https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/MENTALHEALTH/suicide_prevention/index.asp   36:00 - MDMA assisted psychotherapy, psilocybin assisted therapy - https://maps.org/research/mdma - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6041963/   38:30 - Wounded Warrior Project - https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/   50:12 - Burning Man - https://burningman.org/   52:25 - free fear and anxiety assessment at Kristen's website - https://kristenulmer.com/free-fear-and-anxiety-assessment   1:00 - LSD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide - https://maps.org/research/psilo-lsd